An automated post office box mail detection and notification system.

Abstract

Modern technology of using embedded systems has taken root in almost every sector in Uganda today and this is because of advancement in technology. Much as Posta Uganda has tried to improve most of its services and it has not yet catered for the post office box rental services in a sense that the service still requires the presence of the box owner in order to find out the status of their box. The owner has to make probability trips to the postal office station to find out whether they have mail or not. And for the cases where they don’t find any mail in their box, they become frustrated since they have wasted their time coming to check. Therefore, there was a need for a system that can inform them whether they have received mail or not so that they come with the assurance that they have mail. Therefore, having been interested in solving this problem came up with an automated post office box detection and notification system that can notify the owner of the box with an SMS that they have received mail together with the weight of the mail they have received. All the information in this report was gathered from the internet and consultations from Posta Uganda counter personnel. The system was designed in Proteus ISIS software and code written in Arduino using C++. The system was tested using the following tools Arduino Uno board, serial monitor, and digital multimeters. The system was then validated and verified to see if it’s actually doing what it is supposed to do. This project was developed in a period of 5 months.